The Witty Newsletter #1
This is our “Hello, World!”
To have or not to have a newsletter… that’s the question!
Many members of the Witnet community have asked for a weekly newsletter focused on the progress of the Witnet project. While we’re not totally sure if this format is the right fit for the project, we said — why not trying?
So here we are! Enjoy this first issue of “The Witty Newsletter — Hot $WIT News Every Week!”
Adoption, collaborations and partnerships
Our friends at Bodh Finance recently shared this short post in which they explained how they are making the most of the Witnet oracle to secure more and more TVL every day in their lending protocol on Boba:
Bodh x Witnet. GM Bobarians, | by Bodh Finance | Apr, 2022 | Medium — bodhfinance.medium.com
This announcement has been long overdue. We’ve been working with Witnet’s amazing team since our testnet launch. Their team has been an awesome support for us. We hope that our integration with…
Events
Some members of our community spent the last week in Amsterdam, where they participated in a dozen of conferences, events and networking sessions that helped expand the outreach of the project and deepen our friendship with an increasing number of builders in the Web3 ecosystem.
Beyond DevConnect and ETHAmsterdam, we also had the chance to participate in AmsterDOT, a 4-day conference focused on the Polkadot ecosystem, where we were able to showcase our strong integration with Moonbeam and Moonriver, and to lay the foundation for an eventual integration with Polkadot itself.
Tech, tech, tech!
This last week saw a huge milestone on the development side. The Witnet Improvement Proposals 0020 and 0021 were passed and immediately activated through the TAPI mechanism:
Introducing Witnet-Rust 1.5 — Miners, it is time to upgrade! | by Adán Sánchez de Pedro | The Witnet Foundation Blog | Mar, 2022 | Medium — medium.com
Since the Witnet mainnet was released on October 2020, the network has seen a continuous and astonishing growth: The number of new features, integrations and ecosystem initiatives in the pipeline is…
That’s all for this first week
We hope you enjoyed it, and also hope to see you soon in the next issue of this newsletter. Have a nice week!
About Witnet
Witnet is a decentralized oracle protocol that focuses on providing reliable data to smart contracts that require a high degree of tamper resistance and should not leave space for manipulation. Witnet can power most DeFi primitives like price feeds, stablecoins, synthetics, etc., as well as acting as a reliable source of randomness for creating uniqueness in NFTs.
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